About two months ago I reviewed book SQL Server 2005 Practical Troubleshooting: The Database Engine. Yesterday I received a request from reader, if I can write something from this book, which is not common knowledge in DBA community. I really like the idea, however I must respect the Authors copyright about this book. This book is unorthodox SQL book, it talks about things which can get you to fix your problem faster, if problem is discussed in book. There are few places it teaches behind the scene SQL stories.
SQL SERVER – 2005 – Explanation of TRY…CATCH and ERROR Handling With RAISEERROR Function
One of the developer at my company thought that we can not use RAISEERROR function in new feature of SQL Server 2005 TRY…CATCH. When asked for explanation he suggested SQL SERVER – 2005 Explanation of TRY…CATCH and ERROR Handling article as excuse suggesting that I did not give example of…
Read MoreSQL SERVER – Find Name of The SQL Server Instance
Few days ago, there was complex condition when we had one database on two different server. We were migrating database from one server to another server using nightly backup and restore. Based on database server stored procedures has to run different logic. We came up with two different solutions. 1)…
Read MoreSQL SERVER – 2005 – OUTPUT Clause Example and Explanation with INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE
SQL Server 2005 has new OUTPUT clause, which is quite useful. OUTPUT clause has accesses to inserted and deleted tables (virtual tables) just like triggers. OUTPUT clause can be used to return values to client clause. OUTPUT clause can be used with INSERT, UPDATE, or DELETE to identify the actual…
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